Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 13:20:01 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, dfr@nlsystems.com, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <3580.902488801@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "07 Aug 1998 12:17:31 %2B0200." <xzpzpdhnlj8.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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In message <xzpzpdhnlj8.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> writes: >> Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: >> > They won't if you use separate kernel idents (e.g. "GENERIC_I386"and >> > "GENERIC_ALPHA" instead of "GENERIC"). >> That's true, but using a different sub-directory would stop people >> like me from shooting themselves in the foot. Schlumberger engineers >> with know the term Group 7 for lost time. (For non-Schlumberger >> engineers, it means "lost time due to engineer's mistake"). > >Well, I work at Schlumberger Geco-Prakla¹, but have never heard that >term :) Besides, they have these QHSE posters all over the place >proclaiming a "no blame" policy... when you shoot yourself in the >foot, just point to the nearest QHSE poster :) Isn't the point "Point at the QHSE poster, not your foot ?" :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminalhome | help
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